I have had several problems with the hand brake rear shoes sticking. They are now fee and not dragging. However, I have noticed the rear hubs are quit hot. The passenger side is always much hotter than the drivers side. When the cruiser is in neutral it will roll easily. No noise, so any comments would be helpful. If it is bearings I want to fix it before I am stranded.
Rear Hub Temperature
- Thread starter Zeke
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If the bearing got overheated it would melt all the grease. So if you feel it got a lot hotter than the other side its best to replace the bearing. I have not seen the rear wheel bearing for 100 series but all Semi Floating wheel bearing I have seen are sealed and once they run out of grease you could not repack them.
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I just out of 'happenchance', I felt the rear hubs tonight and they were quite warm (both sides). Same as above, rolls just fine, parking brake engages and releases just fine. Axle is cool as far outboard as I could touch. Rear caliper and disc are cool. Lug nuts are cool. It's just the drum that's hot. And by hot I mean just hot enough that you don't want to keep your hand on it but not hot enough to burn you. And it's more hot the further inboard you go.
Think I maybe have a shoe that's riding on the drum? They turned fine by hand last weekend when I had the wheels off.
I just out of 'happenchance', I felt the rear hubs tonight and they were quite warm (both sides). Same as above, rolls just fine, parking brake engages and releases just fine. Axle is cool as far outboard as I could touch. Rear caliper and disc are cool. Lug nuts are cool. It's just the drum that's hot. And by hot I mean just hot enough that you don't want to keep your hand on it but not hot enough to burn you. And it's more hot the further inboard you go.
Think I maybe have a shoe that's riding on the drum? They turned fine by hand last weekend when I had the wheels off.
If you have an IR therm, pull hubcap & check to see if it is heating up from hub out or from drum.
It does not take much drag from either discs or parking brake to create heat, that is a small amount, doubt you would feel it by turning it. Those drums rust, creating drag, because they are not engaged in motion. Try engaging parking brake for a short bit while going 30mph. FSM has bedding proceedure for them if you want more details on how long and how many times.
It does not take much drag from either discs or parking brake to create heat, that is a small amount, doubt you would feel it by turning it. Those drums rust, creating drag, because they are not engaged in motion. Try engaging parking brake for a short bit while going 30mph. FSM has bedding proceedure for them if you want more details on how long and how many times.
Good ideas Ski, I'll try that. It's not so hot that you can't touch it (like with heavy braking on the fronts) but it's warmer than it should be. If it's just a little brake drag then I'm not going to sweat it, but it it's bearing related then I want to be on top of it.
